Nevertheless, he seemed delighted by the director Ulu Grosbard's admiring comment at the "Next Stop Wonderland" premiere: "You're causing trouble!"
He managed a suitably admiring comment or two on the passing scenery, so their silence would not be too obvious.
In his autobiography, he reports only Hiss's admiring comment on the Moscow trials: 'Joe Stalin certainly plays for keeps.'
"She's a one-woman phenomenon"-- an admiring comment from her predecessor, Mickey Kantor.
Through the blood pounding sickly in her head Concepci6n was painfully, shamefully aware that the men had crowded close--laughing and making admiring comments.
At unexpected moments comes a knowing nod from another fedora-wearer or an admiring comment from a woman with intimate knowledge of life during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations.
His admiring comment on his spouse's role was: "I get to meet the most fascinating people, people I'd never meet on my own."
The two men then exchanged some admiring comments regarding the great man, and Dracula repeated some of the conversation which had once passed between himself and Franklin.
I passed an admiring comment in French to his Arab owner.
Ives's music never occupied more than a single modest spot on each pair of programs, but several important critics singled it out for serious and admiring comment.